Improvement in processes of preparing wall-paper



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

ARGHIBALD W. PAULL, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESSES OF PREPARING WALL-PAPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 140,533, dated July 1,1873 application filed January 23, 1873. I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARCHIBALD W. PAULL, of Wheeling, in the county ofOhio and State of West Virginia, have invented a new Process ofPreparing Wall-Papers, of which the following is a specification Theinvention will first be fully described in connection with all that isnecessary to a full understanding thereof, and then clearly pointed outin the claim.

Wall-papers have heretofore been prepared by making the design orfigures upon a die plate or block, and then imprinting that upon thepaper. I simply have a carefully-selected and artistic design, preparedon paper, wood, or other material, and photograph it directly upon thewall-paper. In this manner I am able to secureas many facsimiles as Iwish of a design whose delicacy oftint, exact imitation of nature, andelaborate ornamentation are absolutely impossible in the block-printingprocess. Again, by my process a single copy of a design may be enlargedor diminished in size to suit difl'erent heights of ceilings, thussecuring an exactitude of correspondence between the paper and apartmentwhich is unattainable in wall-paper at the present time.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The process of preparing wall-papers, substantially as above described.

AROHIBALD W. PAULL. Witnesses: S0L0N 0. KEMON,

Tnos. D. D. OURAND.

